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    In the autumn of 1784, Thomas Jefferson traveled to Paris and lived there for over a year. During this time, he made a series of excursions with Pierre Cabanis, the co-founder of Ideology (the science of ideas) and an influential member of French society. Cabanis acquainted him with the city of Paris, the people who lived there, and the enlightened trends in French thought. As a result, Jefferson blossomed from a philosophical introvert into an elegant man who was well-informed on progressive issues and most welcome in the inner sanctum of Parisian society. Historian and philosopher James Thompson provides rich details of this transformative period in Thomas Jefferson’s life in his new book, THOMAS JEFFERSON’S ENLIGHTENMENT: Paris 1785 Illustrated Edition (Commonwealth Book Publishers of Virginia Hardcover: $45.00). Thompson has created a new kind of history by writing interpretive reconstructions of Jefferson’s visits with Cabanis. Share the wonder Jefferson experienced as you peruse 160 museum quality reproductions of period maps, Parisian scenes, and portraits of the lumieres who welcomed the untraveled American into the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris. Accompany Pierre Cabanis and his aspiring protégé to public gardens, the theatre, salons, the grain exchange, and along the bustling, stinking thoroughfares of the French capital. Join Jefferson as he settles into the most elegant—and debauched—society in the world. The man you will meet in this colorful book is far more vivacious than the monument you learned about in school. During this influential period in Jefferson’s life, he grasped the French concept of Progress and became enlightened. These concepts would prepare Jefferson for his life ahead. Ten years later, he would team with James Madison and lead a new party through America’s first national political campaign. Thomas Jefferson would become the “Father of Enlightenment in America” -- and President of the United States.

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    In the autumn of 1784, Thomas Jefferson traveled to Paris and lived there for over a year. During this time, he made a series of excursions with Pierre Cabanis, the co-founder of Ideology (the science of ideas) and an influential member of French society. Cabanis acquainted him with the city of Paris, the people who lived there, and the enlightened trends in French thought. As a result, Jefferson blossomed from a philosophical introvert into an elegant man who was well-informed on progressive issues and most welcome in the inner sanctum of Parisian society. Historian and philosopher James Thompson provides rich details of this transformative period in Thomas Jefferson’s life in his new book, THOMAS JEFFERSON’S ENLIGHTENMENT: Paris 1785 Illustrated Edition (Commonwealth Book Publishers of Virginia Hardcover: $45.00). Thompson has created a new kind of history by writing interpretive reconstructions of Jefferson’s visits with Cabanis. Share the wonder Jefferson experienced as you peruse 160 museum quality reproductions of period maps, Parisian scenes, and portraits of the lumieres who welcomed the untraveled American into the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris. Accompany Pierre Cabanis and his aspiring protégé to public gardens, the theatre, salons, the grain exchange, and along the bustling, stinking thoroughfares of the French capital. Join Jefferson as he settles into the most elegant—and debauched—society in the world. The man you will meet in this colorful book is far more vivacious than the monument you learned about in school. During this influential period in Jefferson’s life, he grasped the French concept of Progress and became enlightened. These concepts would prepare Jefferson for his life ahead. Ten years later, he would team with James Madison and lead a new party through America’s first national political campaign. Thomas Jefferson would become the “Father of Enlightenment in America” -- and President of the United States.

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    Press Release: Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment Background Notes

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    James Thompson
    In the autumn of 1784, Thomas Jefferson traveled to Paris and lived there for over a year. During this time, he made a series of excursions with Pierre Cabanis, the co-founder of Ideology (the science of ideas) and an influential member of French society. Cabanis acquainted him with the city of Paris, the people who lived there, and the enlightened trends in French thought. As a result, Jefferson blossomed from a philosophical introvert into an elegant man who was well-informed on progressive issues and most welcome in the inner sanctum of Parisian society. Historian and philosopher James Thompson provides rich details of this transformative period in Thomas Jefferson’s life in his new book, THOMAS JEFFERSON’S ENLIGHTENMENT: Paris 1785 Illustrated Edition (Commonwealth Book Publishers of Virginia Hardcover: $45.00). Thompson has created a new kind of history by writing interpretive reconstructions of Jefferson’s visits with Cabanis. Share the wonder Jefferson experienced as you peruse 160 museum quality reproductions of period maps, Parisian scenes, and portraits of the lumieres who welcomed the untraveled American into the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris. Accompany Pierre Cabanis and his aspiring protégé to public gardens, the theatre, salons, the grain exchange, and along the bustling, stinking thoroughfares of the French capital. Join Jefferson as he settles into the most elegant—and debauched—society in the world. The man you will meet in this colorful book is far more vivacious than the monument you learned about in school. During this influential period in Jefferson’s life, he grasped the French concept of Progress and became enlightened. These concepts would prepare Jefferson for his life ahead. Ten years later, he would team with James Madison and lead a new party through America’s first national political campaign. Thomas Jefferson would become the “Father of Enlightenment in America” -- and President of the United States.

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    THOMAS JEFFERSONS
    ENLIGHTENMENT

    BACKGROUND NOTES
    by

    James C. Thompson

    Thomas Jeffersons Enlightenment Background Notes is a self-contained
    collection of seventeen essays. Author James Thompson envisioned it
    originally as a supplement for his earlier book, Thomas Jeffersons
    Enlightenment Paris 1785. Readers will find in his detailed background
    notes a feast of little known facts, seldom noted events, and forgotten
    relationships. As they peer into historical nooks and crannies that only the
    author seems to know about, they will develop a new insight into the
    circumspect political loner who drafted the Declaration of Independence
    alone in his Philadelphia rooms. They will see how enlightenment
    transformed Thomas Jefferson into the engaged social progressive who
    later waged and won the Second American Revolution. In this collection of
    notes, the author discusses the factors that shaped the man who went to
    France, the people he encountered there, the city he came to know, the
    circles he entered, the ideas they discussed, and other topics relating to this
    fascinating period in Jeffersons life. By examining the motives and
    objectives that guided him through his day-to-day affairs, Mr. Thompson
    brings welcome clarity to an image that somehow became murky.


    ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
    James Thompson studied Philosophy as an undergraduate and graduate student at the
    University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. As a graduate student, he lived on the farm
    of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph. During his four years there,
    he began what has been an ongoing investigation into "the philosophy" of Thomas Jefferson.
    Mr. Thompson developed an interest in the History of Ideas teaching courses in Philosophy,
    Religion, and Ethics and Western Civilization at Strayer University in Alexandria, Virginia. He
    completed his first book, Beyond the Veil of Reason - Thomas Jefferson's Early Political
    Initiatives, as a Batten Fellow at the Jefferson Center for International Studies at Monticello.
    Commonwealth Books of Virginia published The Birth of Virginias Aristocracy in 2009 and
    The Dubious Achievement of the First Continental Congress in 2011. The First Revolutions
    in the Minds of the People will be released in the fall of 2014. The release date for George
    Washingtons Indispensable Man Who is Will Lee has not yet been finalized.

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    THOMAS JEFFERSONS ENLIGHTENMENT BACKGROUND NOTES
    By James C. Thompson
    American History/Biography
    ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9904018-1-0 / ISBN (Ebook - Kindle): 978-0-9904018-2-7 /
    ISBN (Ebook - EPUB) 978-0-9904018-3-4 / ISBN (Ebook - PDF) 978-0-9904018-4-1 /
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    Release date: October 20, 2014
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